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Evangelical Christianity was on the march. But it wasn’t quite the finished product. That would happen in England ... His name was John Wesley. Bristol in the west of England is one of the founding centres of a denomination that would turn the Moravian dream into a reality – Methodism ... Wesley met the Moravians in 1775 on board ship ... A fairly methodical way of trying to achieve holiness. And early on, someone, without apparently friendly intent, called them Methodists. Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, BBC 2009
We have received threatening calls from militant Methodists. Rumpole of the Bailey s6e6: Rumpole for the Prosecution, Rumpole to Mrs Ballard, ITV 1991
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be ‘saved’ on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it. Stanley Hauerwas
Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life. Stanley Hauerwas
The Methodists must take heed to their doctrine, their experience, their practice, and their discipline. If they attend to their doctrines only, they will make the people antinomians; if to the experimental part of religion only, they will make them enthusiasts; if to the practical part only, they will make them Pharisees; and if they do not attend to their discipline, they will be like persons who bestow much pains in cultivating their garden, and put no fence round it, to save it from the wild boar of the forest. Rupert Davies & A Raymond George & Gordon Rupp, ‘A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain’, 1898
I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin. John Wesley, cited Darius Salter ‘America’s Bishop: The Life of Francis Asbury’
I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation. John Wesley, journal 11 June 1739